The Louisiana High School Athletic Assocation will consider proposals this week to put public and private schools in different categories for sports.

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ERIC NARCISSE
The Daily Advertiser

LAFAYETTE, La. -- For 15 years, a debate has brewed in Louisiana High School Athletic Association circles over whether to split the state into separate public and private school associations. Some public coaches and administrators believe private schools, with bigger pools of talent to draw from, have an unfair advantage.

Attempts to divide sports teams failed in 1998 and 2005. The discontented public school faction was down, but certainly not out.

At the annual LHSAA Convention today through Friday in Baton Rouge, two more proposals that would divide the state's school sports teams ...